tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post6867221152583829682..comments2009-04-07T02:06:08.425-07:00Comments on The Wizard of Odds: Solich's Problematic Student-Athletesdawizofoddsnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-2766571890157160992007-02-23T11:10:00.000-08:002007-02-23T11:10:00.000-08:00It sounds like somebody better wake up and get the...It sounds like somebody better wake up and get their heads out of the sand, as long as their is great pressure to win every year on coaches these problem athelete are going to continue appearing on campuses across the country. <BR/><BR/>Coaches are forced to recruit for the best athelete which is mostly in the inner city. Allot of them have questionable back grounds. In most cases these atheletes are not there for an education, but to get a free ride into NFL.<BR/><BR/>These questionalble atheletes have been pampered during there whole career. We as a society have been told to continue giving them second chances. So as long as there is a priority to win on the field, there are going to be more atheletes making the police blotter ensted of the sports page.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15857498.post-49494813292867666472007-02-23T03:01:00.000-08:002007-02-23T03:01:00.000-08:00The Athens News is notorious for publishing anythi...The Athens News is notorious for publishing anything and everything they can negatively about the university - both athletic and academic.<BR/><BR/>While I don't doubt the football program has some bad actors, I know the paper will work diligently to repeatedly hammer those items to death. When I was a student a Ohio, a fellow freshman who was a basketball player was arrested for underage drinking. The paper called it a "class (something) misdemeanor" and referenced it that way only. What a joke, you'd have thought he assaulted someone. <BR/><BR/>Of course, Frank is teflon at Ohio. But he won't be much longer - he's younger than you think, and he'll parlay his success into a bigger job - he openly admits he'd move for the right opportunity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com